Junot Díaz: Quotes about love

“And because love, real love, is not so easily shed.”

“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”

“Love was a rare thing, easily confused with a million other things, and if anybody knew this to be true it was him.”

“Love is the great test of the human. The human is tested by our ability to withstand love. Love is so difficult, it is so challenging, it demands of us that we wreck it with ourselves. It demands of us an honesty that few of us could sustain.”

“As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.”

“Beli at thirteen believed in love like a seventy-year-old widow who's been abandoned by family, husband, children and fortune believes in God.”

“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”

“Know that in this world there's somebody who will always love you.”

“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture”

“The half life of love is forever.”

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”